Fellow Green Mountain Colleagues, Over the past few years there has been a consistent pulsation regarding the policies of cigarette smoking in the campus climate. A recent mass e-mail from Student Senate attempted to garner community-wide responses in order to better understand the situation. Some of these respondents requested a complete ban of smoking on [...]
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Oh, cruel world! Rants from the Edge
To the lazy hippie that took my bike, I hope the 15 seconds you saved yourself riding my bike from Ames to the library was worth it. I also wanted to say that I hope you didn’t get too wet in the pouring rain. I just wanted you to know that I spent 30 minutes [...]
Intellectual Sin
BY GORDON ELLMS Sometimes it seems like I’m part of some nationwide ego trip. I recycle, I’m cautious about the amount of water and electricity I use, and I’m an Eric Schlosser fan, but someone always comes around that has a better solution. For the United States population that can afford it, green is the [...]
GMC celebrates 175th birthday
BY MELISSA MARKSTROM “We are caught up in a profound spiritual and moral crisis. You can give up or you can act for change. I believe colleges, universities, and churches must work to develop a response that is good for all people,” said James Winkler, keynote speaker at the Methodist Heritage Symposium. The symposium was [...]
A new addition to the men’s basketball team
BY JAMIE KENNEDY Gerrard Johnson’s impact on the basketball team has been nothing but positive this year. Johnson, a 6-foot-3, 195-pound sophmore transferred here from Corning Community College where he played with seniors Fabian Ferreria, Herley Pellew, and Assistant coach Alphonso Howlet. “Without those guys, I would not be here right now. They introduced me [...]
Doing Good While Doing Well
BY ROBERT PUDNER “I’m not an anarchist. Well… maybe I’m an anarchist.” With these words starts a long bus ride to a Victorian hostel outside of downtown Philadelphia. From October 4-5, students and alums from twenty-six colleges and universities around the United States gathered in a small lecture hall at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton [...]
GMC Squirrels go international
BY NIKKI PFEIFFER AND ROBBIE LEEDS A group of seventeen ultimate frisbee players packed up their warm clothes and headed out for Montreal for the third tournament of the Green Mountain Flying Squirrels Fall season, The tourney was held by McGill University and the games were played on both Saturday and Sunday.
5 years is too many
By Christina-Alexa Liakos While most students were heading home for Easter break, 20 GMC community members stuck around to join more than 150 other citizens of central Vermont for a demonstration, rally and peace concert to voice that 5 years is too many. Many people felt inspiration from the youth movement that was present at [...]
GMC Media Cooperative Constitution
The creative efforts and business of media are undergoing a generational change. But this sort of change is familiar to Poultney: in the 1820s, two of the most influential American journalists learned their craft here. Horace Greeley went on to publish the New York Herald and provided key support for the abolitionist movement. And George [...]
